BMJ Open
December 2024
Introduction: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. Treatments for TBI patients are limited and none has been shown to provide prolonged and long-term neuroprotective or neurorestorative effects. A growing body of evidence suggests a link between TBI-induced neuro-inflammation and neurodegenerative post-traumatic disorders.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntegrated programs for common mental illnesses are evidence-informed practices yet to be routinely implemented in Latin America. It synthesizes the literature on integrated programs for common mental illnesses (anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder) in Latin American primary care and community settings. It maps program components (the 'what') to the collaborative care model core components and implementation strategies (the 'how') to the Expert Recommendations for Implementing Change (ERIC) taxonomy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe decolonise global health movement has critically reassessed the field's historical and political underpinnings, urging researchers to recognise biases and power imbalances through reflexivity and action. Genuine change is seen as the outcome of the researcher's self-awareness, often leaving the underlying structures of global health-and global mental health (GMH)-in the background. Here, we problematise how expectations around agency and change have been mobilised in discussions around decolonisation, highlighting the gradual and contingent nature of international collaboration in GMH.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe impact of drug saturation and processing regime on the microstructure of amorphous solid dispersions (ASDs) produced by hot-melt extrusion (HME) has been investigated. By exploring various combinations of drug loadings and processing temperatures, a range of drug saturation points were obtained by HME. The process was monitored with an in-line low-frequency Raman probe to construct the respective solubility phase diagram (i.
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